Lyrics by Desmond Dekker
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- Fu Manchu
- Israelites
- 007/Shanty Town
- Baby Come Back
- Beautiful And Dangerous
- Believe
- Beware
- Blackbirds Singing
- Bongo Gal
- Fat Man
- Get Up Edina
- Hippopotamus
- Honor Your Mother and Your Father
- Intensified
- It Mek
- It's Not Easy
- King Of Ska
- Mother Nature
- Music Like Dirt
- Pickney Gal
- Rude Boy Train
- Rudie Got Soul
- Sammy dead
- Sweet Music
- Unity
- Where Did It Go
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
Desmond Dekker (16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with "Israelites" (1968). Other hits include "007 (Shanty Town)" (1967), "It Mek" (1969) and "You Can Get It If You Really Want" (1970).
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